Saif al-Islam Gaddafi ‘trying to broker deal to surrender to ICC’
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and Abdullah al-Senussi had concluded they were safer handing themselves in rather than remaining on the run in Libya, or trying to hide in a neighbouring country.
The Hague-based court issued arrest warrants for the two men and Col Gaddafi in June for their role in the bloody attempted suppression of the February 17 revolution.
A spokesman for the court said he had no information on any proposed deal or negotiations, however.
Diplomatic sources also said they had no information to suggest the claims were true.
“They are proposing a way to hand themselves over to The Hague,” said Abdel Majid Mlegta, a senior military commander with the National Transitional Council (NTC). “They feel that it is not safe for them to stay where they are or to go anywhere.”
Both men are believed to have fled to the deserts of southern Libya after the final Gaddafi loyalist holdouts of Sirte and Bani Walid were captured by rebel forces last week.
Tuareg sources in Niamey had suggested they were trying to cross into Niger where more than 30 Gaddafi regime figures had already taken refuge.
Mr Mlegta said that according to intelligence reports, both men had now reconsidered after deciding they would be at risk in Niger or Algeria.